Deuteronomy 27:24

World English Bible (2000)

'Cursed is he who strikes his neighbor in secret.' All the people shall say, 'Amen.'

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Referenced Verses

  • Num 35:31 : 31 "'Moreover you shall take no ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death; but he shall surely be put to death.
  • Lev 24:17 : 17 "'He who strikes any man mortally shall surely be put to death.
  • Exod 20:13 : 13 "You shall not murder.
  • Exod 21:12-14 : 12 "One who strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be put to death, 13 but not if it is unintentional, but God allows it to happen: then I will appoint you a place where he shall flee. 14 If a man schemes and comes presumptuously on his neighbor to kill him, you shall take him from my altar, that he may die.
  • Deut 19:11-12 : 11 But if any man hates his neighbor, and lies in wait for him, and rises up against him, and strikes him mortally so that he dies, and he flees into one of these cities; 12 then the elders of his city shall send and bring him there, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.
  • 2 Sam 3:27 : 27 When Abner was returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside into the midst of the gate to speak with him quietly, and struck him there in the body, so that he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother.
  • 2 Sam 11:15-17 : 15 He wrote in the letter, saying, "Send Uriah to the forefront of the hottest battle, and retreat from him, that he may be struck, and die." 16 It happened, when Joab kept watch on the city, that he assigned Uriah to the place where he knew that valiant men were. 17 The men of the city went out, and fought with Joab. Some of the people fell, even of the servants of David; and Uriah the Hittite died also.
  • 2 Sam 12:9-9 : 9 Why have you despised the word of Yahweh, to do that which is evil in his sight? You have struck Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and have taken his wife to be your wife, and have slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon. 10 Now therefore the sword will never depart from your house, because you have despised me, and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.' 11 "This is what Yahweh says: 'Behold, I will raise up evil against you out of your own house; and I will take your wives before your eyes, and give them to your neighbor, and he will lie with your wives in the sight of this sun. 12 For you did it secretly, but I will do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun.'"
  • 2 Sam 13:28 : 28 Absalom commanded his servants, saying, "Mark now, when Amnon's heart is merry with wine; and when I tell you, 'Strike Amnon,' then kill him. Don't be afraid. Haven't I commanded you? Be courageous, and be valiant!"
  • 2 Sam 20:9-9 : 9 Joab said to Amasa, "Is it well with you, my brother?" Joab took Amasa by the beard with his right hand to kiss him. 10 But Amasa took no heed to the sword that was in Joab's hand. So he struck him with it in the body, and shed out his bowels to the ground, and didn't strike him again; and he died. Joab and Abishai his brother pursued after Sheba the son of Bichri.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 27:25-26
    2 verses
    84%

    25'Cursed is he who takes a bribe to kill an innocent person.' All the people shall say, 'Amen.'

    26'Cursed is he who doesn't confirm the words of this law to do them.' All the people shall say, 'Amen.'"

  • Deut 27:15-23
    9 verses
    82%

    15'Cursed is the man who makes an engraved or molten image, an abomination to Yahweh, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and sets it up in secret.' All the people shall answer and say, 'Amen.'

    16'Cursed is he who sets light by his father or his mother.' All the people shall say, 'Amen.'

    17'Cursed is he who removes his neighbor's landmark.' All the people shall say, 'Amen.'

    18'Cursed is he who makes the blind to wander out of the way.' All the people shall say, 'Amen.'

    19'Cursed is he who wrests the justice [due] to the foreigner, fatherless, and widow.' All the people shall say, 'Amen.'

    20'Cursed is he who lies with his father's wife, because he has uncovered his father's skirt.' All the people shall say, 'Amen.'

    21'Cursed is he who lies with any kind of animal.' All the people shall say, 'Amen.'

    22'Cursed is he who lies with his sister, the daughter of his father, or the daughter of his mother.' All the people shall say, 'Amen.'

    23'Cursed is he who lies with his mother-in-law.' All the people shall say, 'Amen.'

  • Lev 24:19-21
    3 verses
    73%

    19If anyone injures his neighbor; as he has done, so shall it be done to him:

    20fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; as he has injured someone, so shall it be done to him.

    21He who kills an animal shall make it good; and he who kills a man shall be put to death.

  • Lev 24:14-17
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    73%

    14"Bring out of the camp him who cursed; and let all who heard him lay their hands on his head, and let all the congregation stone him.

    15You shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, 'Whoever curses his God shall bear his sin.

    16He who blasphemes the name of Yahweh, he shall surely be put to death; all the congregation shall certainly stone him: the foreigner as well as the native-born, when he blasphemes the Name, shall be put to death.

    17"'He who strikes any man mortally shall surely be put to death.

  • Prov 24:24
    72%

    24He who says to the wicked, "You are righteous;" peoples shall curse him, and nations shall abhor him--

  • Jer 48:10
    72%

    10Cursed is he who does the work of Yahweh negligently; and cursed is he who keeps back his sword from blood.

  • Exod 21:12
    71%

    12"One who strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be put to death,

  • Prov 29:24
    70%

    24Whoever is an accomplice of a thief is an enemy of his own soul. He takes an oath, but dares not testify.

  • Lev 20:9
    70%

    9"'For everyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death: he has cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.

  • Exod 21:17
    70%

    17"Anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.

  • Deut 13:9
    70%

    9but you shall surely kill him; your hand shall be first on him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people.

  • Deut 13:11
    70%

    11All Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall not do any more such wickedness as this is in the midst of you.

  • Prov 25:18
    70%

    18A man who gives false testimony against his neighbor is like a club, a sword, or a sharp arrow.

  • Deut 19:11-12
    2 verses
    70%

    11But if any man hates his neighbor, and lies in wait for him, and rises up against him, and strikes him mortally so that he dies, and he flees into one of these cities;

    12then the elders of his city shall send and bring him there, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.

  • Exod 21:14-15
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    70%

    14If a man schemes and comes presumptuously on his neighbor to kill him, you shall take him from my altar, that he may die.

    15"Anyone who attacks his father or his mother shall be surely put to death.

  • Prov 24:18
    70%

    18lest Yahweh see it, and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him.

  • Prov 27:14
    69%

    14He who blesses his neighbor with a loud voice early in the morning, it will be taken as a curse by him.

  • Zech 5:3
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    3Then he said to me, "This is the curse that goes out over the surface of the whole land; for everyone who steals shall be cut off according to it on the one side; and everyone who swears falsely shall be cut off according to it on the other side.

  • Num 35:21
    69%

    21or in enmity struck him with his hand, so that he died; he who struck him shall surely be put to death; he is a murderer: the avenger of blood shall put the murderer to death, when he meets him.

  • Prov 24:28-29
    2 verses
    68%

    28Don't be a witness against your neighbor without cause. Don't deceive with your lips.

    29Don't say, "I will do to him as he has done to me; I will render to the man according to his work."

  • Num 35:23
    68%

    23or with any stone, by which a man may die, not seeing him, and cast it on him, so that he died, and he was not his enemy, neither sought his harm;

  • Lev 19:16-17
    2 verses
    68%

    16"'You shall not go up and down as a slanderer among your people. "'You shall not endanger the life of your neighbor. I am Yahweh.

    17"'You shall not hate your brother in your heart. You shall surely rebuke your neighbor, and not bear sin because of him.

  • Deut 28:16
    68%

    16You shall be cursed in the city, and you shall be cursed in the field.

  • Prov 20:20
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    20Whoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness.

  • Prov 3:29
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    29Don't devise evil against your neighbor, since he dwells securely by you.

  • Ps 89:41
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    41All who pass by the way rob him. He has become a reproach to his neighbors.

  • Deut 19:19-20
    2 verses
    68%

    19then you shall do to him as he had thought to do to his brother: so you shall put away the evil from the midst of you.

    20Those who remain shall hear, and fear, and shall henceforth commit no more any such evil in the midst of you.

  • Lev 5:4
    67%

    4"'Or if anyone swears rashly with his lips to do evil, or to do good, whatever it is that a man might utter rashly with an oath, and it is hidden from him; when he knows of it, then he shall be guilty of one of these.

  • Exod 20:16
    67%

    16"You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.

  • Deut 28:18
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    18The fruit of your body, the fruit of your ground, the increase of your livestock, and the young of your flock shall be cursed.